Posted on 12/14/2014 11:35:26 PM PST by Hojczyk
A Long Island federal jury rewarded Nancy Genovese, 58, a mother of three, $1.12 million in compensatory damages after being arrested in 2009 for attempting to photograph a helicopter at a Air National Guard base in the Hamptons. Genovese intended to use the photo on a “Support the Troops” website; she was arrested for trespass and insulted as a "Teabagger."
From The New York Post: Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, “I bet you are one of those Tea Party people.” When Genovese said she’s gone to Tea Party rallies, he allegedly said, “You’re a real right-winger, aren’t you?” and “You are a ‘Teabagger’” and then added that she’d be arrested for terrorism to make an example of other “right wingers.”
“What they took from this woman cannot be measured in money,” said her lawyer Frederick Brewington.“There is no reason to treat another human the way they treated her.”
“Ms Genovese was subjected to a level of abuse because they did not share the same political views as she did and saw this as an excuse to deny her even the most basic civil rights,” he said. After she won, Genovese said she wants to start a foundation to help others who were wrongly arrested.
"This was the ultimate rude awakening," she said. "At any given time, anybody can be arrested and can be held on excessive or no bail."
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Not gonna happen. Because the elites have no reason to see this done.
The only way this changes will be the public taking the responsibility and administering many attitude adjustment sessions to cops like this.
There will be a tipping point if this keeps happening. It will not be peaceful.
Wow~!
The Volkspolizei Live Again!
The vast majority of cops I have known have been extreme left-wing liberals who believe they, and they alone, should have guns.
I know many support the 2nd, and I have met a few, but overwhelmingly cops have been anti-2nd.
I believe veterans are also on the list?
I don’t think it even matters what a person is, or isn’t, actually.
Political enemies are now labeled as “terrorists” for expediency.
I’ve been watching the Russian vs Ukrainian debacle, and both sides are calling the other side terrorists.
People throw the word around like a buzzword, its become meaningless. This deputy knew the lady wasn’t a threat. He just didn’t like her politics.
A lot of FReepers anymore will say she shouldn’t have resisted and if she wasn’t doing anything wrong then the cop wouldn’t have gone after her. Too bad that the cop is still on duty and no doubt violating the rights of other law-abiding people.
So do I.
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